DragonForce hit House of Blues Houston on Wednesday, November 18 as part of the Inhuman Rampage 20th Anniversary Tour — 22 North American dates built around the album that made them and, eventually, made them notorious in rooms that had nothing to do with metal. It’s their largest North American run in over two decades, and the Houston stop in a 1,800-capacity room feels correctly calibrated for where the band actually sits in the market right now.
About DragonForce
Inhuman Rampage came out in 2006 and crossed over in a way that power metal rarely does. The album spent 23 consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200, and “Through the Fire and Flames” went Platinum before Guitar Hero III made it genuinely famous outside the metal underground. The song was the game’s final-boss challenge — the one that separated the dedicated from everyone else — and for a certain generation, DragonForce and that track are essentially the same thing. Twenty years on, it still functions as the band’s calling card, which is both a credit to how good the song is and a quiet challenge: how do you remind an audience there’s more to the catalog than one impossible chart run?
The 2026 tour introduces a significant new variable: Alissa White-Gluz, formerly frontwoman of Arch Enemy, joins as DragonForce’s first female vocalist, sharing lead duties with Marc Hudson, who has been with the band since 2011. Guitarist Herman Li has called the addition “an expansion of everything we’ve done up to this point.” White-Gluz, a stated longtime fan of the band, brings range that should give already maximalist arrangements some additional texture. The two-vocalist configuration is genuinely new territory for DragonForce, and how it translates live is one of the more interesting questions this tour is built to answer.
Support comes from Ensiferum and Rhapsody of Fire. These are not filler names. Ensiferum’s Finnish folk metal attack and Rhapsody of Fire’s symphonic power metal sweep make this a real three-act bill — the kind worth showing up on time for.
About the Venue
House of Blues Houston is located at 1204 Caroline St in Midtown. At 1,800 capacity, it’s a working mid-tier room — large enough for a touring package this size to breathe, close enough to the stage that it still reads as a club show rather than an arena night. For more Houston concerts, browse our full regional calendar.
Tickets & Show Details
Doors open at 6:30 PM on Wednesday, November 18. Tickets are on sale now — grab them at the link below before this one moves.